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Re: IRR information & BYOIP (Bring Your Own IP) with Cloud Providers


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:07:44 -0500

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 4:55 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:

Sounds like you’ve got a weird mix of route origination. Why wouldn’t you
advertise to Google via BGP and have your prefix originate from your own
ASN?



I think in this case the customer has their own disconnected deployment,
and they are asking 396982 to announce some subset of their prefixes such
that gcp gets that traffic.



Owen


On Jan 19, 2024, at 02:39, kubanowy <kubanowy () o2 pl> wrote:

Hi,
We have our own prefix assignment from ARIN. We have our infrastructure in
GCP (Google Cloud Platform) where we started using BYOIP functionality
(Google advertises our IPs). We followed their recommendation with ROA
configuration in ARIN
https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/bring-your-own-ip#live-migration-recommendations
 but they don't mention if IRR (whois database) should be updated as


The roa is really for two reasons:

  1) tell Google you actually control that asset.
  2) tell the world that 396982 is permitted to originate that prefix.

Use of irr data is nice, but not required here...

well. I've checked with their support and they said no additional changes
need to be done there.
But currently we are in situation where ARIN's whois contains entry for
our prefix with our own ASN and Google advertised to RADb entry for our
prefixes with their own ASN.


I don't believe to robots at google are supposed to register irr data for
byoip customers... Can you mail me off list and I can go do a.little
digging? ;)


When we use online tools like https://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/ or Cisco's
CrossWork Cloud (former BGPmon), they mark our prefixes due to mismatch of
ASN in those 2 databases.
We haven't observed any routing issues so far (i.e. ISP not importing our
prefixes), but we aim to sort this out for better credibility. I'm
wondering what's community approach for updating whois databases when using
BYOIP functionality with Cloud providers and if there is a risk of any
potential impact if we were to change information in ARIN.
Thanks




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